got my 32A circontrol e-station wall box back.
now using it to charge the volt at 14A.

Went up to Yanchep Shopping Centre last Saturday.
Used the 15A to 10A adaptor from Jaycar, but since the volt draws 14+A unlike the imiev's 13-A, the adaptor's over current circuit trips after 5-10 mins
had to use the volt's 10A unit to charge.

wish that bollard would be upgraded to 15A
currently running on 20A circuit with 2x 10A sockets
I guess this will be for the future when 2 bays may be allocated for EVs.

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Any solution yet?
I have had a Volt since Jan 2018. Most of the time it charges OK but it trips RCDs just often enough to be really annoying. It did it at a public charging location where the meter box was locked so I could not reset it. Fortunately I could use a second outlet that must have been on a different circuit and it did not trip. It tripped at a relative's house one time but not after resetting that day or on another day. It trips at home sometimes on its own dedicated circuit. It intermittently trips the RCD whether I use the EVSE from my iMiEV or the one from Holden.
I am wondering if it is worth getting a portable in-line RCD cord? My thought is to have that trip where it affects only the car and I can readily reset it to have another go at starting charging. With luck it might be slightly more sensitive than others so it goes first?
The car does not trip RCDs later if charging has started successfully.

Hi Peter,
Probably not much help to you, but I use a Volt EVSE to charge my Mitsubishi Outlander when I am out. My experience has been that it will only trip out if used on 10A sockets. I use it reasonably regularly on a 15A socket and from memory it has never tripped out on one of those. Mine will also randomly trip the RCD on a 10A powerpoint.

Hi Peter,
Probably not much help to you, but I use a Volt EVSE to charge my Mitsubishi Outlander when I am out. My experience has been that it will only trip out if used on 10A sockets. I use it reasonably regularly on a 15A socket and from memory it has never tripped out on one of those. Mine will also randomly trip the RCD on a 10A powerpoint.

HTH,

I use the Volt EVSE with my Mitsubishi iMiEV and it has never tripped. At home I use the iMIEV EVSE for both cars and the Volt trips just often enough to be annoying but the iMiEV never trips. My conclusion, like the one earlier in the thread, is that it is the Volt itself, not the Volt EVSE that is causing RCDs to trip itermittently.

My conclusion, like the one earlier in the thread, is that it is the Volt itself, not the Volt EVSE that is causing RCDs to trip itermittently.

My experience is obviously quite different from yours as we don't own a Volt. Maybe our EVSE (which I purchased from @g4qber with full disclosure about the issues he'd experienced with it) is faulty and it's a different problem from yours...

Any solution yet? ... I am wondering if it is worth getting a portable in-line RCD cord? My thought is to have that trip where it affects only the car and I can readily reset it to have another go at starting charging. With luck it might be slightly more sensitive than others so it goes first?
The car does not trip RCDs later if charging has started successfully.

I got a 2m cord from Jaycar with an RCD device in-line and experimented today. Sometimes it tripped, sometimes it didn't but the house RCD always tripped when the cord tripped. Sadly, the cord tripping did not save a trip to the meter box to reset the RCD there.

I have a solution. Buy the smallest wallbox unit you can find...And wire is up for luggable use...My layperson’s Reason being that wallboxes don’t have rcds.

Thanks but I am not sure how that would help when the tripping RCD is upstream of the power point.
With or without an RCD in the EVSE, the main nuisance comes from the RCD back in the meter box tripping. This is especially annoying when it is inaccessible such as when I have been given permission to use a power point in a hotel carpark or I am using a power point in a park somewhere found via Plugshare. When visiting friends or relatives, having to fumble about in the dark with a meter box tends to undermine the demonstration that charging is a simple as plugging in a phone to charge and leaves them with the nuisance that other devices on the same circuit had the power cut.

Completely agree with you.
Major annoyance and inconvenience, especially for next user.
Hence glad I got rid of revolting volt.

I’m not an electrician
But The issue may be having 2 rcds in series...

I don't doubt your experience, but I find it hard to see how the absence of one RCD could prevent another RCD from tripping. I had hoped that the reverse would work, that I could put a portable RCD upstream of the EVSE and that might trip before another further upstream. It didn't work with the one I just tried but I suspect it still should be a valid idea if I can find an unusually fast portable RCD so it always goes first.

For me this issue is only a minor annoyance most of the time when I can charge at home. It is more of a problem when travelling. In other respects the Volt suits me very well and I am happy with it. In the absence of an extensive network of rapid chargers this car lets us have a vehicle for occasional long range use that does not use any petrol for local travel. It was affordable second-hand whereas EVs with long-range batteries were not yet affordable for us.

If the idea presented earlier in this thread is correct, that the problem is a filter that is fine on US centre-tapped 240V but not on AU 240V with one end referenced to ground, it should be fixable with a modification of that filter.

Lol if you put another rcd in you’ll have 3 rcds in series.
The clipper creek 15 amp showed up with charge fault sometimes with my volt, but would not trip the main RCD.
The voltec GM/Holden 10A EVSE is made by clipper creek.

So, perhaps the clipper creek 15 amp EVSE has a more sensitive, faster RCD than the GM/Holden/ClipperCreek 10A EVSE, perhaps fast enough to always trip before others? If so, that could be the fix.

But if the RCD in the meter box does not trip, then the clipper creek EVSE can be turned off and disconnected and you have the chance to try again. Having to try a couple of times is much better than being locked out if the RCD in an inaccessible meter box trips on the first attempt.